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going to spend a day welcome to news asia glad you could join us an acrimonious exchange has marked the 1st high level meeting between the new u.s. administration and chinese officials u.s. secretary of state antony blinken accused china of threatening global stability while china's top diplomat young deity accused the u.s. of inciting countries to attack china the testy exchange came as blinken and national security advisor jake sullivan met chinese foreign minister whiny and young in alaska and this is a glimpse of how it went today we'll have an opportunity to discuss key priorities both domestic and global also discuss our deep concerns with actions by china including. hong kong taiwan cyber attacks on the united states.

on cyber attacks let me say that whether it's they unveiled the to launch cyber attacks or the technologies that could be deployed the united states is the champion in this regard. me would. secretary brink blink and laid out many of the areas of concern from economic and military coersion to assaults on basic values these are the concerns that are on the minds of the american people but it goes beyond that we've heard each of these concerns were from around the world. the u.s. does not represent international public opinion i have to tell you what i'm hearing is very different from what you describe i'm also hearing deep concern about some of the actions your government is taking a confident country is able to look hard at its own shortcomings and constantly seek to improve and that is the secret sauce of america well known by the mission to try think we thought too well the united states thought it would follow the

necessary diplomatic protocols meal us does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to china from a position of strength you are not even qualified to say such things 20 or 30 years back because this is not the way to deal with the chinese people if you want to deal with us properly let's have some mutual respect and do things the right way. and for more i'm joined from beijing by government advisor and president of the think tank center for china and globalization wang where you know mr wong welcome are you surprised by how this 1st meeting between the u.s. and china has been. why much really surprised though no surprise because i think based actually. you know a series of events actually leading to this conference is not really that encouraging for example you as a soccer is stunned at the sanctions on the chinese government officials but also

sanction chinese companies a day before 'd a conference that has taken place so i think this is a. very a friendly gesture you know off to all chinese taluk as i travel all the way to the news to the terrors of united states supposed to be like what they have really mad that was. very open he could use as a mayor and a tax so i think they have to defend the none so doubts rocking that it's got to stop it what does china expect from this meeting. well i think that meeting from the from this very important by a lot of the chatting lisa 1st meeting a high level between a face to face after a fight a mistress and took office so it's a very very important and i think the what the what we you know publicly chinese expect is that let's have a stots of the thigh look under normal discussion let's calm don let's sit down let's cuddle face because face to face meeting right let's talk to each other and

let us solve all the you know you know whatever differences let's know about where you're coming from how we can you know you know accommodate each other and then the but find out sick underground i mean in my eyes the differences that's i think what chinese want probably not a spot of minimizing the differences i'd like to bring in what young did he said in his statement he said the chinese values are the same as common values of humanity namely peace develop and fairness justice freedom and democracy so i'd like to know from you how is the hong kong national security law democratic how's the diamond of up to a 1000000 we girls in changing justice and how are you not true chinese actions in the south china sea peace well i think you know i think you know do you direct a young was why did he talk about. peace and development and democracy which i think you know he has different forms on the phone that we

cannot expect everybody come to one form of us of our for social one form of prosperity i think what having hong kong hong kong stephanie good morning prosperity and all small you piece on has more to follow but so what is not what you are you calling what someone is going to receive. why i think it's a it's a democracy it's a casodex of democracy you let even the chief exactly what was elected by without him. you know thought and so on the delegates on the spot in 200 delegates were composed of they were elected by different you know sean choose and jurisdiction and distrait so it's a concept of democracy it's a bit different for much democracy so it doesn't take a lot of democracy when i'm interrupting you so but it's also a selective democracy isn't it because the people of hong kong well asking for universal suffrage the most you have in hong kong is definitely not universal suffrage something that is the basis for democracies around the world. i think that

you know you have you know they survive on style but china has discussed salted democracy and then you know they have it they have they basically it's they have a representative to from different walks of life composed of the selection committee and the election committee select a chief executive so i think that's the way that so they have a more unity taking physics kitchen off the couch or history back edition so so you know that works in hong kong and oculus for china so i mean that's where we can expect continue the prosperity and development mr wong if for a moment the view of this meeting is what both countries china and the u.s. all for the what the u.s. position is essentially that it's in favor of rules based international order what is china offering the world. what a channel for the word after you know china offered over well over one 3rd of a go get you to be gross you know you know norma you're actually doing up and down

your china offered over 50 of us on a boat you can cross china is the largest trading partner of 130 contras around the world china has never occupied any any territory never send a soldier to other countries but you have all of my sister i'm sorry sorry i'm interrupting you but you have occupied editor in the south china sea and you know that to me about and this is the point going on us was relieved no i don't think so saw china sea you know historically tradition has always been a chinese territory if it has a dispute with china because some of that was the country in the region in all doesn't have to be the us to come so far to come and and intervene so so and also there is no there is no conflict there is no clashes little basic your logic peaceful i mean is not iraq iran was sure to follow afghanistan i mean china is basically a very peaceful country when i took your country why did the philippines go to the international court and bring an order which had the chinese actions such as the un illegal don't they if any have it's only right of course they can do that but china

has its own right can do so they can do and they can discuss they can you know have meetings the last say on china has this code of conduct of some china meetings i mean they they always have meetings on the south by by themselves i don't think indeed any foreigner integration on that and you know the confidant or nation they can do you know whatever they agreed upon so i'm sure this is an internal matter between china and contras in the region surely going to south i just wanted to drop in you some of them permit me what you keep calling china's internal affairs do you know think it impinges on a rules based international order which dictates that countries do not take unilateral action in specially when there are disputes involved. why don't thing they take unilateral action then the chinese have a need to use or they have an i.q. regular meter was aussie on the alpha channel processor on the one pos one time cost $3.00 there's always in dialogue they're always in the meetings in there as

you know so anything is actually a sign of a country was trying to i mean they just you know that's a larger you cannot be active it is going on the president really being afraid to china many times i don't think that's a country has a very serious problem one final question so do you think that there is a way in which trying on the united states can work together heading into the future absolutely i think it's really i'm very sad to say that you know what well the world is facing and i mean i mean. you know we have climate change you sure that these. older people in the world and we have they are a lot of developing countries are also plagued by the stat you should even everybody's leaving on the deficit or days into recession after the oldies upon time the. possibility to work together solving those common sense rather than you know attack each other and having all those differences i think that's really what they should focus on the common strength for the mycon and

stop the response you should and this should shoulder responsibility for that particular us over global government you know. it's beginning right wrong way oh we leave it there for the time to thank you so much for joining us from a moving car in beijing thank you thank you sorry but thank you. and john as relations have been just saw with the us earlier this month china banned the import of taiwanese pineapples citing prest problems on the island fear of catastrophic losses as china buys around 90 percent of taiwan's pineapple exports instead the feud has seeded a resistance movement aimed to challenge china's growing dominance across asia with freedom pineapples. after. the harvest is finally here but just 3 weeks ago it was just trying to pull in parts from the island for us over the past 10 years we have expanded our farmland 3 times

to meet the rising demand from the chinese market i never thought they would impose a ban of the star on the pineapples have nowhere to go. the bank came right before harvest time many kind of post already right packaging and. china. but other markets do container trucks now come to the phone 4 times a week each time carrying $9000.00 fresh pineapple to hong kong for a trade that injuries from hong kong come in right after china announced a back. there was. never stop praying since that day i didn't expect such enthusiasm i'm shocked i hope it gives farmers more confidence. has been pouring in from japan korea singapore and australia. mr and mrs forsyth the man from the. last from the chinese market with crisis comes opportunity.

we used to rely so heavily on the chinese market but we shouldn't put it in a basket it's time to step out of a comfort zone and try something new. and that's the baby are back together not on monday but. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19 special. on t w. in the us of climate change. because the mayor says. most

people. want to use do they have for their future. g.w. dot com megacities the meeting to get things clear cut or. the urgency of the coronavirus pandemic has seen an unprecedented surge in scientific innovation one breakthrough originates right beneath us place border tells an intriguing tale of a city and the movement of a virus in the only it's mutations and early warning system. but strangely one that some governments atoning their noses up that. well it does stink no one wants to talk about it or go anywhere near it but monitoring waste water for

traces of a pathogen can provide a detailed picture of an entire community without the biases and limitations of regular testing methods. this sewage treatment plant in frankfurt may not look very exciting but there's a lot more to waste water than meets the eye. professor says on the lochner allies is it to detect the presence of the nobel coronavirus. the waste water can also give us information about which mutations are to be found in which catchment areas. the environmental scientist on her team at the technical university of darmstadt have developed a method to monitor how much virus is circulating in a particular area and to identify which strains are present to see if say the brazilian or british ones are spreading the method has met with considerable interest in other countries. as well as we see it the method is ready for

years and it is in fact already being used in the netherlands the united states and spain in cooperation with their health authorities. and. it's not being used in germany even though it could function as an early warning system if it finds the virus in one sewer but not in another but could help public health authorities focus attention and resources on areas where trouble is brewing even if the people there who are shedding the virus have no symptoms that have not been tested. but you can use the data as to make the infection rate in the catchment area around the sewage treatment plant that could help you decide if you need to do more or less testing or whether or not to relax for stricture and based on the readings you're getting from the water. it's not clear why authorities in germany won't embrace this early warning system the method was developed in cooperation with the frankfurt sanitation department but the city hasn't started to

use it we asked the health department why that is in a written response it expressed doubts about its practicability at the university of baum we talked to martin exner a professor of public health who approves of the new method and thinks it should be used this is how we interpret the authorities reticence to deploy it. it's still physically saw. it appears they are abiding by rigid principles would be on are finding it hard to embrace new ideas such as waste water monitoring. for survival in mid afternoon and i think we need to both demand more courage and offer more encouragement in this area. and germany's association of towns a municipality s. has also weighed in on the issue. anything that helps us combat the pandemic should be made available that includes monitoring waste water with them wanting to oil.

but for now this potentially valuable system developed in germany is not being used in germany critics say that's down to an abundance of bureaucracy and a lack of courage how more of that in the worst case such an archer could cost lives and you would have seen suzanne a lot in that report she's a professor for wastewater engineering and joins us today thanks for joining us to being on the show why do you think germany hasn't embraced this early warning system of yours. thanks for having me well i think it's. a federal issue when you have you know in isolation and in the states and the system that we have between the west and the sector the sectors not prepared for facing. this basically accurate. summer thora tease argue the system isn't practical would do were great. you know i mean we are already past that must go

that she's ready we can start does and tyrus and we have to be aware of the protections but it's definitely out. ok to understand this let me pose the question differently why have the netherlands and spain and the united states embrace this is them. i mean for the nun ceasars i understand i mean they have a president called on this already. years ago was this the polio virus and there's a much better connection between the public health sector and the water sector already and they seem to have better management of us already also seeing more and more potential in this mission that's why they are. have a must maybe i should add that i hope that in german you will improve because also the european union just posts its recommendations to include wastewater placed

a particular g. and the best model tory. and will support a member state so i'm still optimistic you can also move along with this interim well suzanna could you explain to us how it actually works your system. what we do is usually take samples from we get samples from the test if you were over 24 hours they are collected we bring it to them that we do some some preparation and extraction and then we basically go ahead with a similar analysis or tools that are used in the medical sector one is the quantitative p.c.r. the other sequencing and we get to the types of missions. and the information you get you've said is less biased than official figures could you explain that to view . yes i mean what we get is basically an unbiased picture of what's happened and happening in the catchment of the treatments because people may not want to get

tested and may not feel sick but they will all go to the toilet so that's why we get a. sense a better picture of what's going on and even though it's basically a pool sample that we can still monitor or a lot of the virus coming in or even now of mutations that are catch and can the doctor also be used to estimate the actual number of infected people. and from what we've done i wouldn't be hasn't time to do that and all colleagues have tried but in that sense i would say we don't know what he must from the from the medical aside how many. how much was one person actually excretes and. i would i wouldn't do that but i don't question your so people who are more capable of doing that. at the end of the day couldn't this also be used to trace other diseases other infections definitely i mean i think everything that is

somewhat in the water and can be spread by water or through through the waste water can be detected and i mean we also work on to metropolis distances and that is a big issue and it will what will remain a big issue we can also use everything next now and all the concepts that are made for tracking resistance chains or even other pathogens tiriel irises and everything that is that goes with water let's hope that the germans can overcome their bureaucratic problems than and take his thought it would be nice to see it as an alumna great to have you on the show today thank you. over a one star side as to my favorite scientist in car spotted derrick williams with the questions you guys have been leaving on how you churchill. explained the difference between a new strain and

a new variant. this is tough to do since even viral legist seem to view the differences as fairly fluid but but let's start by maybe going over some of the other biology basics that you've you've probably learned this year already 1st is that although it's technically not considered a live virus evolves constantly as it replicates just like living things do its genetic code changes because mistakes happen as the code is copied by a living cell that gives rise to what are commonly known as mutants now for complicated biological reasons not every mutation leads to actual physical changes in the viruses structure but but when it does you can begin thinking of that mutants as a variant now a variant is generally considered

a string when it's wandered even farther down that road and acquired characteristics and behaviors based on its new structure that clearly distinguish it from other earlier forms so you could say that although all strains are variants not all variants are strains let's maybe make a comparison from the macro world we've been genetically engineering dogs for thousands of years through selective breeding and it's pretty astounding how different they can book but dogs all share common characteristics that are. how you to instantly identify an animal as a dog whether it's a chihuahua or a newfoundland the different breeds can be viewed as variants on the canine genome but go far enough back and split off another evolutionary branch and you end

up with the modern wall which has a common ancestor but some distinct characteristics and behaviors that allowed us to instantly identify as ople so if they were viruses then breeds of dogs would be variants while dogs and balls would be strains now i'm the 1st to admit that the analogy is imperfect but maybe it makes the terms a little easier to grasp. so mutants variance strains thank you derek and more dog news the pandemic has led to a boom in pet ownership that's also seen a rise in animal trafficking german police save these little cuties suffering from diarrhea and exhaustion passing from hungary through a german motorway check on their way to belgium or a $101.00 tops it's believed that papers will fall sulfate illegal trade is booming

in europe activists say $8000000.00 poppies are trafficked every year so be careful what you buy it can have a huge impact of course on the health and welfare of the animals tax evasion is also an issue. thanks for watching i'll see you very soon. going.

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